BRENT STRANG
brent.strang@stonybrook.edu
BRENT STRANG
brent.strang@stonybrook.edu
EDUCATION
2015 – Ph.D. Candidate, Cultural Studies. Stony Brook University.
2014 – M.A., Cultural Studies. Stony Brook University.
2013 – Women’s and Gender Studies Certificate. Stony Brook University.
2010 – M.A., Film Studies. University of British Columbia.
2007 – B.A., Film Studies (Minor: English). University of Alberta.
DISSERTATION THESIS
Upholstered Frontiers: Remote Control Apperception in the Home Entertainment Zone.
PUBLICATIONS
In Preparation
2016 – “Armchair Harmonics: The Historical Persistence of the Push-Button Television Remote Control.” Analog Sunset: On the
Impending Demise of Vanishing Media. Ed. Mark Wolf. Routledge.
Articles
2009 – “‘That there corpse is startin’ to turn!’ Three Burials and the Postmortem Western.” Cinephile 5.2: 39-46.
2008 – “Beyond Genre and Logos: A Cinema of Cruelty in Dodes’ka-den and Titus.” Cinephile 4.1: 29-35.
Book Chapters
2015 – “The Apocalypse is No-thing to Wish for: Revisioning Traumatic Masculinities in The Road.” Ed. Barbara Gurr. Race, Gender
and Sexuality in Post-Apocalyptic TV and Film. Palgrave MacMillan.
2015 – "The Disinterred Western: Thwarting Fables at the Border in Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and No Country for Old
Men.” The Western in the Global South. Eds. MaryEllen Higgins, Rita Keresztesi, and Dayna Oscherwitz. Routledge.
Reviews
2014 – Caetlin Benson-Allott. Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens: Video Spectatorship from VHS to File Sharing. Journal of Visual
Culture: Special Issue on McLuhan 13.1: 107-110.
2012 – Melissa Gregg and Gregory J. Seigworth, eds. The Affect Theory Reader. InVisible Culture 17: n.p.
Web & Editorial Publications
2014 – “Handyman Competency Part II: Fruity Bodies in Film and Television.” Masculinities 101; revised for The Good Men Project.
2013 – “IKEA Masculinities and Handyman Competencies.” Masculinities 101; revised for The Good Men Project.
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
2016 – Design History Society Student Research Travel Grant. $700
2015 – SIGCIS Travel Award. $200
2015 – GSEU Professional Development Award. $600
2014 – Distinguished Travel Award, SBU Graduate Student Organization. $1000
2008 – SSHRC Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. $17, 500.
CONFERENCES
2016 – Panel Chair, Organizer, and paper presented, “Armchair Harmonics: Designing Logitech’s Harmony One Remote Control.”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Atlanta, Georgia. 1 April.
2015 – Panel Organizer and paper, “Peripheral Convergence Through User-Centered Design: A Case-Study of Logitech.” Special
Interest Group for Computers, Information, and Society at Society for History of Technology. Albuquerque, NM. 11 October.
2015 – “Toying with Tools and Retooling Toys: RCD and Game Controller Coevolution.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
Montreal, Quebec. 28 March.
2014 – “Cruel Remotes: Reading a 1998 Sharp Series RRMCG0241AJSA VCR RCD.” Flow. University of Texas at Austin. 13
September.
2013 – “In the Sandbox with Machinima’s Message: Tetradic Analysis and Intermedial Visual Literacy.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Chicago, IL. 7 March.
2012 – “Red Dead Remediation: Sandbox Games, Anti-environments and Digital Adolescence.” Society for Cinema and Media
Studies. Boston, MA. 24 March.
2011 – “A Red Dead Remedy for the Emasculating Anxieties of Digital Seclusion.” Media Ecology Association. University of Alberta,
Edmonton, AB. 23 June.
2010 – “‘That’s just hot shit. You’re a wild man!’ Frontier Masculinities in The Hurt Locker.” Film Studies Association of Canada.
Concordia University, Montreal, PQ. 3 June.
2009 – “‘No Country for Old Western Fables’: The Contemporary Mode in Western Genre Revisionism.” Film Studies Association of
Canada. Carleton University, Ottawa. 31 May.
2008 – Panel Chair and paper presented, “A Cinema of Cruelty in Jan Svankmajer’s Lunacy.” Film Studies Association of Canada.
University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 3 June.
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
2009 – Co-Editor in Chief. Cinephile: University of British Columbia’s Film Studies Journal. Vols. 5.1 & 5.2:
'Alternative World Cinema' & 'The Scene'.
2015 – Reviewer Feedback for Oxford University Press. In preparation for the 4th edition of Michael Kimmel’s Manhood in America:
A Cultural History, 3rd ed.
2014 – Blind Peer Review. Cinema Journal article on Artaudian Cinema.
TEACHING
Stony Brook University
Film History from Postwar-Present – Fall 2015, Spring 2014.
Introduction to Cinema and Cultural Studies – Summer 2015.
Digital Cultural Studies – Spring 2015.
Film Genres – Spring 2013, Winter 2014, Fall 2014.
Masculinities in American Film and Television – Fall 2013.
Film History 1895-Present – Fall 2012.
INTERVIEWS
2011 – Interviewed by Marsha Lederman. “Westerns: Back in the saddle, but with angst.” Globe and Mail. 19 Aug.
SERVICE
2014 – Graduate Representative for Faculty Hire in Cultural Studies.
2012-2014 – Graduate Student Representative.
2013-present – Founder and Treasurer of Graduate CAT club.
2013 – Lead Organizer for CAT’s Graduate Student Conference ‘Containers’.
2009 – Co-organizer and Master of Ceremonies for Cinephile Fundraiser.
LANGUAGES & PROGRAMS
French– Limited Working Proficiency
Excel, Photoshop, InDesign
AFFILIATIONS
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Media Ecology Association
Film Studies Association of Canada
2015 – Ph.D. Candidate, Cultural Studies. Stony Brook University.
2014 – M.A., Cultural Studies. Stony Brook University.
2013 – Women’s and Gender Studies Certificate. Stony Brook University.
2010 – M.A., Film Studies. University of British Columbia.
2007 – B.A., Film Studies (Minor: English). University of Alberta.
DISSERTATION THESIS
Upholstered Frontiers: Remote Control Apperception in the Home Entertainment Zone.
PUBLICATIONS
In Preparation
2016 – “Armchair Harmonics: The Historical Persistence of the Push-Button Television Remote Control.” Analog Sunset: On the
Impending Demise of Vanishing Media. Ed. Mark Wolf. Routledge.
Articles
2009 – “‘That there corpse is startin’ to turn!’ Three Burials and the Postmortem Western.” Cinephile 5.2: 39-46.
2008 – “Beyond Genre and Logos: A Cinema of Cruelty in Dodes’ka-den and Titus.” Cinephile 4.1: 29-35.
Book Chapters
2015 – “The Apocalypse is No-thing to Wish for: Revisioning Traumatic Masculinities in The Road.” Ed. Barbara Gurr. Race, Gender
and Sexuality in Post-Apocalyptic TV and Film. Palgrave MacMillan.
2015 – "The Disinterred Western: Thwarting Fables at the Border in Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and No Country for Old
Men.” The Western in the Global South. Eds. MaryEllen Higgins, Rita Keresztesi, and Dayna Oscherwitz. Routledge.
Reviews
2014 – Caetlin Benson-Allott. Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens: Video Spectatorship from VHS to File Sharing. Journal of Visual
Culture: Special Issue on McLuhan 13.1: 107-110.
2012 – Melissa Gregg and Gregory J. Seigworth, eds. The Affect Theory Reader. InVisible Culture 17: n.p.
Web & Editorial Publications
2014 – “Handyman Competency Part II: Fruity Bodies in Film and Television.” Masculinities 101; revised for The Good Men Project.
2013 – “IKEA Masculinities and Handyman Competencies.” Masculinities 101; revised for The Good Men Project.
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
2016 – Design History Society Student Research Travel Grant. $700
2015 – SIGCIS Travel Award. $200
2015 – GSEU Professional Development Award. $600
2014 – Distinguished Travel Award, SBU Graduate Student Organization. $1000
2008 – SSHRC Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. $17, 500.
CONFERENCES
2016 – Panel Chair, Organizer, and paper presented, “Armchair Harmonics: Designing Logitech’s Harmony One Remote Control.”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Atlanta, Georgia. 1 April.
2015 – Panel Organizer and paper, “Peripheral Convergence Through User-Centered Design: A Case-Study of Logitech.” Special
Interest Group for Computers, Information, and Society at Society for History of Technology. Albuquerque, NM. 11 October.
2015 – “Toying with Tools and Retooling Toys: RCD and Game Controller Coevolution.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
Montreal, Quebec. 28 March.
2014 – “Cruel Remotes: Reading a 1998 Sharp Series RRMCG0241AJSA VCR RCD.” Flow. University of Texas at Austin. 13
September.
2013 – “In the Sandbox with Machinima’s Message: Tetradic Analysis and Intermedial Visual Literacy.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Chicago, IL. 7 March.
2012 – “Red Dead Remediation: Sandbox Games, Anti-environments and Digital Adolescence.” Society for Cinema and Media
Studies. Boston, MA. 24 March.
2011 – “A Red Dead Remedy for the Emasculating Anxieties of Digital Seclusion.” Media Ecology Association. University of Alberta,
Edmonton, AB. 23 June.
2010 – “‘That’s just hot shit. You’re a wild man!’ Frontier Masculinities in The Hurt Locker.” Film Studies Association of Canada.
Concordia University, Montreal, PQ. 3 June.
2009 – “‘No Country for Old Western Fables’: The Contemporary Mode in Western Genre Revisionism.” Film Studies Association of
Canada. Carleton University, Ottawa. 31 May.
2008 – Panel Chair and paper presented, “A Cinema of Cruelty in Jan Svankmajer’s Lunacy.” Film Studies Association of Canada.
University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 3 June.
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
2009 – Co-Editor in Chief. Cinephile: University of British Columbia’s Film Studies Journal. Vols. 5.1 & 5.2:
'Alternative World Cinema' & 'The Scene'.
2015 – Reviewer Feedback for Oxford University Press. In preparation for the 4th edition of Michael Kimmel’s Manhood in America:
A Cultural History, 3rd ed.
2014 – Blind Peer Review. Cinema Journal article on Artaudian Cinema.
TEACHING
Stony Brook University
Film History from Postwar-Present – Fall 2015, Spring 2014.
Introduction to Cinema and Cultural Studies – Summer 2015.
Digital Cultural Studies – Spring 2015.
Film Genres – Spring 2013, Winter 2014, Fall 2014.
Masculinities in American Film and Television – Fall 2013.
Film History 1895-Present – Fall 2012.
INTERVIEWS
2011 – Interviewed by Marsha Lederman. “Westerns: Back in the saddle, but with angst.” Globe and Mail. 19 Aug.
SERVICE
2014 – Graduate Representative for Faculty Hire in Cultural Studies.
2012-2014 – Graduate Student Representative.
2013-present – Founder and Treasurer of Graduate CAT club.
2013 – Lead Organizer for CAT’s Graduate Student Conference ‘Containers’.
2009 – Co-organizer and Master of Ceremonies for Cinephile Fundraiser.
LANGUAGES & PROGRAMS
French– Limited Working Proficiency
Excel, Photoshop, InDesign
AFFILIATIONS
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Media Ecology Association
Film Studies Association of Canada
